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Kyle Fish It talks readily as if it has consciousness, but it's also susceptible to framing, per Robert Long : x.com/rgblong/status… x.com/rgblong/status…

How economics has changed

This is a fascinating study, and lots of cool studies on LLMs in Games. My main concern is that none of these decisions are incentive compatible. In other words they are hypothetical. The question is can there be incentive compatible experiments for LLMs (right now)?

The recent advances in AI has given me a feeling of anxiety I haven't had before. There are about to be some large disruptions to society/institutions. On one hand, the potential welfare gains are exciting.....but I could also see it all going to shit!

So Springfield is near Baltimore?

Nathan Fielder, you mad genius #TheRehearsal

For those who teach Behavioral Econ, what textbook/s do you use?

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A short summary of recent work with Aidan Coville and Sampada KC on the large amount of weight policymakers place on local evidence, now out at the JDE: evavivalt.com/2025/05/how-mu…

FWIW, Vernon Smith was awarded the Econ Nobel in 2002 for running experiments and proving that it didn't take much to get to competitive markets.

The cool thing about being an Experimental Economist is that we do test the validity of economic theories (and models of human behaviour) in the lab! 1) Experiments are important! 2) That's why we do them!

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Thanks so much for the call out tylercowen and Marginal Revolution. I hope that my new book can live up to your praise and help raise our field to new scientific levels.

Suppose that in the future newer models were used, with non-fake citations. You can always find at least one study that supports whatever wacky view. Heck, you could have AI design a bad study to cite. We're going to need new ways of evaluating and constraining bad takes.

Incorporating informative Bayesian priors into impact evaluation offers the ability to learn more from experiments. Leonardo Iacovone, early modern boy-actress (they/them) & David McKenzie demonstrate how to do this in the context of a Colombian exporting experiment. econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

My biggest spending habit is on a deep tissue massage every couple of weeks. It has such a large impact on my wellbeing. Highly recommend it to anyone working a job where they sit most of the day.

I'm really sad that Global Priorities Institute is shutting its doors soon. A unique institute in how it motivated big research questions in phil, econ, and psych. I owe a lot of my academic journey to GPI! Also, their econ pre-doc program was incredible. Constantly had great placements.

Oh shit, it's June! When did that happen...

Burden of proof. In science where it falls represents a key consideration. Consider external validity. Back in the 1990s, in experimental economics Vernon Smith's "parallelism" shifted the burden of proof to the detractor. Today, the burden of proof in experimental economics

TFW when you are so short (5"7) you don't even get to play in these fun signalling game shenanigans 😭